Sunday Musings: “If I Knew Then What I know Now”…
A new online app developed by a team at the University of Bergen, Norway, claims to predict how many extra years of life you can expect to ‘earn’ by making the right dietary choices early in life. The question is: Will those who can benefit most actually use this tool?Read More →
Fast Food Week: Quick Service Restaurant And Snacks News!
What a week! We have specials to take us through St. Patrick’s Day to Easter. Wendy’s has big new for Canadian breakfast lovers. Pepsi answers last week’s Coke ‘space-flavour’ announcement with a new techno-flavour of its own. And a super-sweet special from Krispy Kreme…Read More →
Childhood Obesity: Preferences & Parental Positivity
Time for an update on research into childhood obesity. And there’s both good news and bad news. One thing our two reports today have in common is that they put the onus on parents to supervise their kids’ eating habits and take ownership of their kids’ obesity…Read More →
Rising Food Prices Driving Major Eating-Habit Shifts
They’ve been telling us to expect it for months – actually more than two years, now – and it’s finally coming to pass, big time. Canadians (and, we can assume, Americans by association) are making big concessions and outright changes to their food-buying habits to make ends meet…Read More →
Realities Of The Avocado Shortage
Canada and the United States get 80 percent or more of its avocados from one region in Mexico. For the past couple of weeks, the U.S. has banned imports of those avocados after an American agricultural products inspector working in Mexico received a threatening phone call…Read More →
‘Natural’ Supplements May Pose Health Risks
It was unfortunate, to say the least, that doping became the biggest story of the 2022 Winter Olympics. But in an era where the difference between winning and losing is often measured in hundredths of a second, it seems performance enhancement was destined to be front and centre…Read More →